Discover all you need to know to get started growing, from choosing the right seeds and soil to caring for your plants as they grow. You’ll get hands-on experience and practical tips, so you’ll be ready to start your own garden.

Learn how to build and light a campfire without matches or firelighters. Suitable for families with children age 7+. bring a rain coat & sun screen, a medium sized potato and some tinfoil!

Join local poets to express our connection to nature through poetry, along with children from local schools who have been invited to write a poem on nature.

Bríd Ní Mhóráin an accomplished Irish poet who grew up across the bay in Camp , will read from her poetry collection and present the prizes to the lucky winners, the judges will read the winning entries for those who do not wish to read their own out loud .

Join Dave Wall, Citizen Science Officer at the National Biodiversity Data Centre at the back beach. We will be exploring the beach area to photograph and identify bivalve shells, seaweeds and other flotsam cast up on the shore. The remains of species cast up by the tide can be a useful indicator of what is living beneath the adjacent waves and helps us map the distribution of marine species around the Irish coast. Learn about monitoring your local shore, improving your marine species identification skills, and contributing to our knowledge of Ireland’s coastal biodiversity.

‘Explore Your Shore!‘ is a NBDC initiative to build our knowledge of the distribution of marine species around the Irish coast and encourage Citizen Science surveys which will ‘help us better understand where and when marine species occur around our coast, and how they are being affected by climate change, water quality and other human impacts’.

More information on the NBDC’s ‘Explore Your Shore!’ project:

Ireland’s Marine Biodiversity Citizen Science Platform – Explore Your Shore

The timing is perfect for springtime foraging when the hedgerows and fields are bursting with life.

Wild Weeds offers foraging, food and medicine making events in County Kerry, and began when two community herbalists got together. Noreen migrated to Kerry via Tipperary and Italy. She spent 20 years in Italy, where she became passionate about Italian cooking and foraging. Returning to Ireland in 2019 she set up home in Killarney where she works as a Health Qi Gong Instructor. Reconnecting with Irish soil, she continues her grá for health, nature and food.

Sarah grew up in Muckross, Killarney and from an early age was drawn to the wildlife, flora and wild coastlines of County Kerry. She has worked for 20 years in nutrition and makes products under her brand Danu Herbalist, that incorporate Irish plants, such as Gorse, Comfrey and Bladderwrack, tapping into their healing and health properties.

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€5 per person Saturday and Sunday

This will be a leisurely walk, for about 45 minutes, and includes a demonstration of marram grass planting.

Suitable for all ages.

2.00pm Saturday 27th, from the car park at the end of Island Road by the tombolo, or 1.45 pm from the Fenit Coast Conservation stand in the tent. (10 minutes walk).